New Delhi, July 1 -- The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has said the reported memorandum submitted by 23 opposition parties and an Independent Member of Parliament to Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant regarding the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is not the appropriate constitutional course, maintaining that judicial remedies not political memoranda must be invoked to challenge the poll body's actions.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, AIBA Chairman Dr Adish C Aggarwala said he has written to the Chief Justice expressing concern over what he termed an attempt to draw the office of the CJI into a political controversy involving the Election Commission. He asserted that the office of th...